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amazon.com - 11/14/2008

The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy: John R. MacArthur: Books

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From Publishers Weekly Though the political machinations behind the North American Free Trade Agreement may not automatically quicken the pulse, longtime Harper's publisher MacArthur has worked the story into a spirited and engrossing case study of low-wage American workers brazenly sacrificed ...

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